Making Vision Stick 2: Taking Responsibility

In Andy Stanley’s book, Making Vision Stick, he shares the fact that making vision stick is the greatest challenge of leadership. So, let’s talk about how we get vision to stick…

Taking Responsibility

As a leader, the most important thing to remember about making vision stick is this: You are responsible.

Let me be clear: as the senior pastor, I am the “Vision-Caster-in-Chief”, & I am responsible to make the vision clear. If our leaders don’t “get it”, that’s my fault, not theirs. But if our leaders look around & don’t see the rest of the church following, we need to ask ourselves where we’re failing. If the people at CLC don’t know where we’re going, it’s because we haven’t made it clear.

Ask yourself: How can we make the vision more clear? More simple? How can we make it stick? How can we make sure everybody “gets it”?

Andy Stanley suggests 5 things: ¹ State the vision simply. ² Cast the vision convincingly. ³ Repeat the vision regularly. ⁴ Celebrate the vision systematically. ⁵ Embrace the vision personally.

We’ll take these one-by-one, beginning with my next post.